Redevelopment aims to welcome all to Episcopal church in Millcreek

The Episcopal Church WELCOMES you!!!!...but we only accept SINNERS. Perfect people need not come...Joe and Co. that would be you.

Selecia Jones- JAX FL wrote:

The Episcopal Church WELCOMES you!!!!...but we only accept SINNERS. Perfect people need not come...Joe and Co. that would be you.

More ignorance void of the Scriptures. A true church accepts sinners not those who willfully practice sinning and abomination while calling the Lord's Word a lie and taking pride in thier wickedness expecting others to deny the Lord and join thier abomination before the Lord.

This is a wonderful story and an ideal test case. I pray that it works. We do need to have more deacons and priests serving the same function as the old 'circuit riders'.

From the article:

The bishop said he wants to see firsthand how the redevelopment works before it's done in any of the diocese's other churches. The 34 congregations, spread among 13 counties, have a total of about 4,700 Episcopalians.

"It's an aging diocese, and it's been in decline for more than 20 years," Sean Rowe said.

"We're hoping to reverse that trend, and we believe it's possible."

He said he decided to start with St. Mark's because it was a congregation in a time of transition and, at 4701 Old French Road, is in a good location. St. Mark's also has a strong lay leadership and a desire to grow, he said.

"These are good people with a history of being willing to embrace people and change," Sean Rowe said.

One of them, member Jean Allue, 87, said she's excited about the activity at St. Mark's and glad to see young people willing to carry on the work.

"I feel really good about what's happening," she said. "I think we're really going to succeed."

Selecia Jones- JAX FL wrote:

The Episcopal Church WELCOMES you!!!!...but we only accept SINNERS. Perfect people need not come...Joe and Co. that would be you.

Great story for a thread topic, Sel.

It triumphs the rebirth of a youthful Spirit in TEC.

We are going to see this happen all over the place, in many Episcopal Dioceses and wherever our Church has established a presence.

Rev. Ken

Selecia Jones- JAX FL wrote:

The Episcopal Church WELCOMES you!!!!...but we only accept SINNERS ...

No one sins in TEC today.

Joe DeCaro wrote:

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No one sins in TEC today.

And Church of Rome clergy never break their vows of 'chastity' with children.

T McCabe wrote:

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And Church of Rome clergy ...

... have exactly what to do with "Redevelopment aims to welcome all to Episcopal church in Millcreek"?

It's a shame that the Episcopal church doesn't teach the New Testament.

SilentRunner wrote:

It's a shame that the Episcopal church doesn't teach the New Testament.

It's a shame that you are such a LIAR!. The New Testament and the GOSPEL are both read in EVERY SERVICE EVER HELD. Most every sermon is on the Gospel reading.

SilentRunner wrote:

It's a shame that the Episcopal church doesn't teach the New Testament.

Yes it sure is.

Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

2Cor 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

2Pet 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

1Cor 6:9 ​Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1Cor 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1Cor 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1Cor 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1Cor 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1Cor 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Selecia Jones- JAX FL wrote:

... The New Testament and the GOSPEL are both read in EVERY SERVICE EVER HELD. Most every sermon is on the Gospel reading.

But it's only effective if you have ears to hear.

Joe DeCaro wrote:

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But it's only effective if you have ears to hear.

You DEFILE yourself on here. Why don't you stop? Did you read the GOSPEL for today>?

Selecia Jones- JAX FL wrote:

... Did you read the GOSPEL for today>?

As I already posted, it's only effective if you have "ears to hear," so I won't bother asking you the same query.

Joe DeCaro wrote:

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As I already posted, it's only effective if you have "ears to hear," so I won't bother asking you the same query.

The Monday morning Jerk is at it again.

Joe DeCaro wrote:

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As I already posted, it's only effective if you have "ears to hear," so I won't bother asking you the same query.

It is not about your ears hearing it but it is about YOUR HEART hearing it...You really do connect with the Pharisees Joe. I am so sorry for your sanctimonious arse.

Selecia Jones- JAX FL wrote:

<quoted text>It is not about your ears hearing it ...

No?
Then why does Jesus refer to having "eyes to see and ears to hear" so many times during His Sermon on the Mount?

Joe DeCaro wrote:

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No?
Then why does Jesus refer to having "eyes to see and ears to hear" so many times during His Sermon on the Mount?

The WORDS of JESUS must PENETRATE you like the nails that penetrated him. You are a surface only Christian. Until it is IN you, it means nothing.

LOL - The Idol worshipers miss the point once again.

What a surprise!

From the article:

"These are good people with a history of being willing to embrace people and change," Sean Rowe said.

These people are just as evil as Christ Jesus. That guy healed the sick on the Sabbath, and hung out with lepers, tax collectors and street walkers. Crucify Him!

Selecia Jones- JAX FL wrote:

<quoted text>The WORDS of JESUS must PENETRATE you ...

That's what's meant by "ears to hear," i.e., hearing, with the intent of doing, not just listening.

Joe DeCaro wrote:

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That's what's meant by "ears to hear," i.e., hearing, with the intent of doing, not just listening.

Joe, True Son of the Church of Rome, don’t confuse a Papal Encyclical to the Gospels.

We all know that the head of your church can’t speak without error but really even he has to take into account the words claimed to have been spoken by Christ Jesus once in awhile.